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In the opinion of one profiler from 1992, he was “the hunky heir.” Because of his athleticism, Brandon Lee was a perfect fit for the martial arts-forward roles that helped him break into Hollywood and assumed the mantle left by the passing of his famed father, Bruce Lee.
However, before an accident on the set of his film “The Crow” claimed his life a little over 30 years ago, there were a lot of Brandon Lees that the public had never met.
Once, Brandon physically confronted a thief he had caught in his own house and detained him until the police could arrive and take him into custody.
The Brandon who organized a type of uprising in his senior year of high school, telling his peers not to take education seriously. He was banished.
At the corporate Christmas party, the Brandon who had his eye on a lovely girl he met while attending a meeting at a production firm seduced her with his fake arrogance and they later shared their first kiss. He would continue by proposing to marry her.
According to his mother Linda Lee Cadwell, “Brandon’s charisma led him to become a ‘character’ in whatever he did” CNN.
Before he became a legitimate movie star, Brandon Bruce Lee was a brother, son, fiance, friend, hopeless romantic, literary prodigy, animal lover, voracious reader, and gifted actor. Then, in March 1993, he was fatally shot by a jammed prop pistol. He was just 28 years old.
Now, his time on earth is more than his lifetime. However, those who were acquainted with him—the complete, multifaceted man that he sincerely hoped viewers would get to know through his films—know that their recollections of Brandon are just as strong as he was. His loved ones say he was too vast of a mind and spirit to be confined in something as transient as time, much like his father.
